The familiar range of grays is not at all relevant to this city and its description. To start with, the city is yellow and red. But there are some spots of color that bring difference to the monotony of our perception of the streets. Graffiti, an art developed on another continent, continues to take root on Kaliningrad ground with much painful effort. Like any youngster, it has its own age and personality. Surprisingly, the fifteen years of co-existence of graffiti and the city have passed unnoticed by many, but this too is understandable. The rapid development of this kind of "painting" took place in 1996-98. It was during that time that most significant works that may still be seen in the city appeared. Nobody can state the reason for this, but it is obvious that since then, the city has continued to receive regular doses of colorful puzzles. The culture matures along with its adepts, styles divide into numerous trends, and we already witness vast wall-canvases employed as advertisements, and nearby, slightly less bright and spectacular works by free artists. Certainly, graffiti express the personality of its creators. Examining the places where one can find examples of street painting, the premiere site is the wall along the tramway tracks at Ianalova street. A dozen works here depict a contemporary vision of urban life and present-day life in general. Another open-air gallery is the fence of the cult building House of Soviets that faces Moscow Prospect. These works date back to 1998; here works by Kaliningrad artists are mixed in with works by guests from Moscow. In many other places in the city one can notice the outlines of fresh graffiti or semi-erased old works on the walls. Near Nizhnyi Lake, the walls form a kind of cemetery preserving the skeletons of semi-effaced works from the early 1990s. Twisted letters, funny faces, tragicomic stories - year by year, they penetrate deeply not only the walls of the city, but our hearts as well.